Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

What am I that I am called upon to have prejudices concerning the universe?

The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?